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OCTOBER, 1875.]
BIOGRAPHY OF JELLAL-AL-DIN RUMI.
بنده تاريخ اين بناء قبول
از سر صدق خواستم ز خرد گفت في الحال رو بگو يحيى قد بنا خالصا لوجه احد نہ صد و چهل و پنج مجموع بود گر در آری حروف وي بعد د
Translation.
O God! A chronogram on the erection of the Jami' Mosque by the Malik ushsharq ['Chief of the East'] Nau Khân, son of Chiman, who has the title of Farhat ul Mulk. O God!
قال الله تعالى وان المساجد لله فلا تدعوا مع الله احدا [بني] هذه المسجد بعهد الزمان ناصر الدنيا والدين ابوالغلام محمود شاه ان لطیف خان اخو بها در شاه بن مظفر شاه بن محمود شاہ بن محمد شا و بن احمد شاه بن محمد شاه بن مظفر السلطان
خلد الله تعالى ملته وسلطانه سدد هذا البنا المسجد | This is a fosque shining and beaming .1
forth, whose rays go up to heaven.
2. If the tongue of the angel calls it 'the raised house' and 'the elevated dome,' it is but proper; *
3. For in honour it is like 'the old house ;' may it never be inside empty of worshippers!
4. Its well is like the Zamzam Well; and, like in Minâ, at the side of it, is a wellattended bâzâr.
8. I sincerely asked Genius for the chronogram of this building,
9. And he replied at once, "Go, Yahyâ, and say, 'He built it from pure motives, for the sake of God.""
10. This gives together 945, if you count up the value of the letters (A.D. 1538). VIII.-Hamzah Salát's Dhalgawari Mosque.§
The prince of Çufi poets, Mullânâ Jellal
al-din Muhammad ul-Balkhiur-Rû. mi, was born at Balkh on the 6th of the month Rabi' I. A.H. 604 (1st October A.D. 1207). His principal work is the Mesnavi, which consists of six daftars or volumes, and treats on an extraordinary variety of subjects, stories, fables,
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God Almighty says, "Verily the Mosques," &c., [as above]. This Mosque was built during the time of the reign of Nasir uddunyâ waddin Abul Fath Mahmûd Shah, son of Latif Khân, the brother of B a h â dur Shah, son of Muzaffar Shah, son of Mahmûd Shah, son of Muhammad
5. The building was erected during the reign of him whose kingdom reaches the eighth throne,
6. Shah Mahmûd, son of S hâh Latif, Shah, son of Ahmad Shah, son of Muwho gives an asylum to other kings.
7. Its builder is Nau Khân, son of Chiman, who through the grace of God became Farhat ul-Mulk.
hammad Shah, son of Muzaffar, the king,-may God Almighty continue his kingdom and his rule! The edifice of this blessed Mosque was strengthened by the meanest of God's slaves, Mallû the royal, who has the title of Khawâs ul-Mulk, in 955. [A.D. 1548.]
Lisan i ghaib, pr. the tongue of the unseen world." This is also the epithet of the poet Hafiz. The raised house' is the Ka'bah in Makkah; and the elevated dome' is the heavenly vault. The old house,' the same as the Ka'bah. The metre of the passage is Khafif.
†The construction is forced : chu mind is either an adjective to Zamzam [the well near the Ka'bah], or the engraver has left out a waw, after Zamzam. Mina is a quarter in Makkah where a bâzâr is held.
المخاطب المتبركه اقل عباد الله متر سلطاني
بخواص الملك في سنة خمس خمسين وتسعماية ||
Translation.
BIOGRAPHY OF JELLAL-AL-DIN RUMI.
BY E. REHATSEK, M.C.E., Hon. Mem. B. Br. P. As. Soc.
parables, legends, and Korân-texts, all permeated by the spirit of the Çufi doctrines; and second to it is his Diwán, a collection of lyrical poems,both known from the banks of the Ganges to the shores of the Bosporus. This poet, the founder of the order of whirling dervishes, who have numerous convents and endowed establish
The engraver has wrongly spelt i instead of. The latter form is required to make up 945. The whole poem is inferior, and in the last line we have to scan chihlupan; and in the sixth distich a foot mustaf'ilun occurs for maja' ilun.
§ This is merely a wall with mihrabs, and having in front a tiled roof supported on wooden pillars.-ED.
